Five-Point Road Map of the State Administration Council

1 AVOID TOO MANY ACTIVITIES WITH ANXIETIES FOR NEW VARIANT OMICRONPAG E-8 (OPINION) Vol. VIII, No. 264, 7th Waxing of Pyatho 1383 ME Saturday, 8 January 2022 INSIDE TODAYNATIONALE ducation cooperation programme for locals in Mann Oilfield resumesPAGE-2 NATIONALM eeting on holding Diamond Jubilee Union Day youth and literature festival heldPAG E -1 0 NATIONALW ooden bridge maintenance in Kandawgyi Lake slated to complete in end-JanPAG E -1 0 NATIONALI nter-Region/ State U-25 Women s Football tourney 2022 opened in Nay Pyi TawPAGE-7 Five-Point Road Map of the State Administration Council1. The Union Election Commission will be reconstituted and its mandated tasks, including the scrutiny of voter lists, shall be implemented in accordance with the Effective measures will be taken with added momentum to prevent and manage the COVID-19 pandemic. 3. Actions will be taken to ensure the speedy recovery of businesses from the impact of Emphasis will be placed on achieving enduring peace for the entire nation in line with the agreements set out in the Nationwide Ceasefire Upon accomplishing the provisions of the State of emergency, free and fair multiparty democratic elections will be held in line with the 2008 Constitution, and further work will be undertaken to hand over State duties to the winning party in accordance with democratic Administration Council Chairman Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing holds talks with Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun SenCHAIRMAN of the State Admin-istration Council Prime Minis-ter Senior General Min Aung Hlaing received Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, who arrived here to pay a working visit to Myanmar.

2 At the Credentials Hall of the Office of the SAC Chairman in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday , the Senior General welcomed the Cambodian Prime Minister who signed the visitors book and posed for documentary photos with the Senior the parlour of the Cre-dentials Hall, they exchanged views on the promotion of dip-lomatic relations, friendly ties and cooperation between the two countries, the progress of the internal peace process in Myanmar and participation of SEE PAGE-3 State Administration Council Chairman Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing receives Mr Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia in Nay Pyi Taw on 7 January JANUARY 2022 THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMARNATIONAL177 new cases of COVID-19 reported on 7 January, total figure rises to 531,801 MYANMAR S COVID-19 positive cases rose to 531,801 after 177 new cases were reported on 7 January 2022 according to the Ministry of Health.

3 Among these confirmed cases, 509,757 have been discharged from hospitals. Death toll reached 19,288 after 4 died. MNAF oreign Heads of State send felicitations to Chairman of the State Administration Council of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung HlaingTHE following is message of felicitations from Foreign Heads of State /Government sent to Chairman of the State Administration Council of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, on the occasion of the 74th Anniversary of Independence Day of the Republic of the Union of Bidya Devi Bhandari, President of Nepal sends Congratulatory Message to Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, Chairman of the State Administration Council and Prime Minister of the Republic of the Union of MyanmarON the happy occasion of the 74th Independence Day of Myanmar, I extend to Your Excellency cordial felicitations and best wishes for Your Excellency s personal health and happiness and for the progress and prosperity of the people of release on detection of SARS-CoV-2 Variant Omicron1.

4 The Ministry of Health is continuously conducting COVID-19 Molecular Disease Surveillance . The ministry released a statement on 28 December 2021 that among those returnees by Relief Flight, four have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 Variant Omicron. 2. The 22 laboratory samples of the COVID-19 virus of the returnees were sent to the National Health Laboratory and No (1) Defence Services General Hospital (1000-bed) on 7 January 2022 and the SARS-CoV-2 Variant Omicron was found in 12 laboratory samples. 3. The 12 Omicron cases are 11 Myanmar nationals and one foreigner eight returned from the UAE by the relief flight while three from Malaysia and one from India. 4. The patients are admitted to the designated hospitals for medical treatment and the passen-gers who returned together with them now undergo Strict Quarantine and lab test. 5. Therefore, it is announced that the Ministry is stepping up the COVID-19 disease monitoring and control activities plus disease prevention, control and treatment activities.

5 Ministry of Health EDUCATION programmes, conducted by MPRL E&P in partnership with the Myan-mar Oil and Gas Enterprises for young people in the Mann Oilfield, resumed in November 2021 after a period of suspen-sion since April 2020 due to the scholarship pro-gramme of MPRL E&P for the 2021-2022 academic year, local youth from the villages near the Mann Oilfield was invited to attend the one-year train-ing course at No (5) Industrial Training Centre in Magway, and 31 candidates took the en-trance exam. Of them, five men were chosen for Automobile Maintenance Course and two women for CAD/CAM Course. MPRL E&P provided a total of K4,050,000 for them under the CSR addition, five local young people were award-ed scholarships worth more than K6 million for the two-month course in Pharmacolo-gy and Healthcare which will be conducted in Minbu and Ayeyawady Training School in Yangon.

6 The selected can-didates have been attending the course since 27 December 2021, and arrangements are made to provide them with job the 2020-2021 Financial year, the MPRL E&P provided scholarships to three young women to attend the courses in Pharmacology and Healthcare and created job opportunities for them. MPRL E&P is also working together with the Ag-riculture Institute (Pwintphyu) for education programmes and plans are underway to provide scholarships to Mann Oilfield local youths. MNAE ducation cooperation programme for locals in Mann Oilfield resumes3 NATIONAL8 JANUARY 2022 THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMARMost of the factories resume operationPRIORITIZING agriculture and livestock much supports the State economy. Except for some factories, most of the factories resume operation. The declining disease infection rate helps the tourism sector to resume.(Excerpt from the speech by State Administration Council Chairman Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing at the meeting 4/2021 of Union Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar on 30-12-2021) State Administration Council Chairman Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing holds talks with Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun SenFROM PAGE-1the ASEAN Chairman s spe-cial envoy and Cambodia in the process, undertakings of Myanmar in accord with the Five-Point consensus of ASE-AN, prevention of COVID-19 and humanitarian aid, and ef-forts of the State Administra-tion Council in development of the nation in accord with the Five-Point road map.

7 Also present at the meet-ing were Joint-Secretary Lt-Gen Ye Win Oo of the State Administration Council , Un-ion Ministers U Wunna Maung Lwin and U Ko Ko Hlaing, and Chief of the General Staff (Army, Navy and Air) General Maung Maung Aye. The Cam-bodian Prime Minister was accompanied by Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Mr Prak Sokhonn, Senior Min-ister Cambodian Minister of Industry, Science, Technolo-gy and Innovation Mr Cham Prasidh, Minister at the Prime Minister s Office and General Secretary of the Council for the Development of Cambodia Mr Sok Chenda Sophea, and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces and Commander of the Royal Cambodian Army Lt-Gen Hun the meeting, the Sen-ior General and the Cambodi-an Prime Minister posed for documentary photos. MNAP rime Minister of Cambodia Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen arrives in Nay Pyi Taw to pay a working visit to MyanmarPRIME Minister of Cambodia Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen arrived in Nay Pyi Taw by the special aircraft yesterday morning to pay a work-ing visit to Myanmar at the invitation of Chairman of the State Administration Council Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung U Wunna Han of the Protocol Department and Cambodian Ambassador to Myanmar Mr Chhouk Bunna welcomed the Cambodian Prime Minister aboard the delegation led by the Cambo-dian Prime Minister was welcomed at the Nay Pyi Taw International Airport by Union Minister for Foreign Affairs U Wunna Maung Lwin, Union Minister for International Cooperation U Ko Ko Hlaing, Myanmar Ambassador to Cam-bodia U Thit Lin Ohn.

8 Chairman of Nay Pyi Taw Council Dr Maung Maung Naing and officials together with the Guard of Honour welcomed the Cambodian Prime Cambodian Prime Minister handed over accessories related to the prevention of COVID-19 to Union Minister U Wunna Maung Lwin. They then posed for documentary donated protective equip - ment for COVID-19 to Myanmar three million face masks, 200,000 N-95 masks, 100,000 goggles, 30,000 sets of PPE suits, 30,000 face shields, 3,000 safety plastic boots PR, 50 ventilator machine units, 50 patient monitor + accessories units and 50 oxygen concentrators. MNAC ambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen signs the visitors book and poses for the documentary photo with SAC Chairman Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia is welcomed with the Guard of Honour at Nay Pyi Taw International Airport JANUARY 2022 THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMARNATIONALCIRCULATION & DISTRIBUTION(+95) (01) 8604532,Hotline - 09 454237515 ADVERTISING & MARKETING( +95) (01) 8604530,Hotline - 09 and published at the Global New Light of Myanmar Printing Factory at , Nga Htat Kyee Pagoda Road, Bahan Township, Yangon, by the Global New Light of Myanmar Daily under Printing Permit No.

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10 Myanmar citizens in Cambodia were vaccinated. Likewise, he said that he would like to request Myanmar to give necessary help to members of the Sangha, nuns and Cambodian citizens from Cambodia in Myanmar. Arrange-ments will be made for signing the agreement to reduce the dou-ble taxation with cooperation in the trade sector of both countries. He would like to draw a new plan for education cooperation. He urged Myanmar to soonest im-plement the designation of travel partner cities between the Ba-gan region of Myanmar and Siem Reap of Cambodia. He expressed his wish to resume the airlines at a time when the COVID-19 can be his address, the Chair-man of the State Administration Council Prime Minister said that the goodwill visit of the Cambo-dian Prime Minister in the early year of 2022 would strengthen the friendly relations between the two countries. As Ministries of Foreign Affairs between the two countries have signed the agreement on cooperation in policy affairs, he said he would like to hold the meeting between ministries of both countries at the opportune time.